By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - In 2010, an estimated 500 people in Washington state died by overdose , 83 percent of them blamed on controlled substances. A decade later, fatal overdoses claimed more than 1,726 residents’ lives. Of those, controlled substances, including opioids, led to 886 - or nearly 51 percent - of these deaths.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - A Vermont-based insulation and roofing contractor’s disregard of federal laws has led to the recovery of $163,492 in back wages and civil money penalties to resolve violations of the H-2B guest worker visa program and Fair Labor Standards Act. The company violated protections for seasonal workers employed under H-2B guest worker visas, as well as its year-round, non H-2B workers.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration , Illinois On-Site Safety and Health Consultation Program, Lakeside Alliance and key participants will sign a strategic partnership to prevent serious hazards and enhance workplace safety and health practices for workers constructing the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South side.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of an $8.4 million cooperative agreement to the Pan American Development Foundation to empower civil society organizations and workers’ organizations to address child labor, forced labor and other unacceptable working conditions in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The project will promote gender and racial equity and prioritize people of African descent, Garifuna and indigenous communities.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on its proposal to modify the methodology used to determine the hourly Adverse Effect Wage Rates for the H-2A program. The proposed changes will better enable the department to meet its statutory mandate to ensure the employment of H-2A workers will not adversely affect the wages of workers in the United States similarly employed.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - A New Hampshire residential carpentry contractor misclassified some employees as independent contractors and paid others straight-time wages when they worked over 40 hours in a workweek, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - The owners of two southern New Hampshire wineries, restaurants, event venues and retail operations in Amherst and Derry violated the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act when they allowed 33 employees younger than 16 years of age to work more hours than allowed under the law.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: GUYMON, OK - A Guymon processing and packing facility - operated by one of the nation’s largest pork processors - failed to prevent workers from being exposed to repetitive motion injuries and did not record injuries that needed more than basic first-aid.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A Louisville pharmacist who fraudulently billed healthcare benefit plans for $188,157 in unfilled prescriptions will serve 9 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release after pleading guilty in federal court.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: MONTICELLO, AR - A knot saw operator suffered a partial amputation of an index finger in June 2021 when his hand came in contact with a rotating blade that lacked adequate machine guarding. A few weeks earlier, a similar saw at the Maxwell Hardwood Flooring plant in Monticello lacerated a co-worker’s palm severely, leaving them with nerve damage.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: LODI, NJ - A U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judge ordered a northern New Jersey trucking company contracted by the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail in the New York City metro-area to pay $549,209 in back wages to 46 drivers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found wage, benefits ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule that implements Executive Order 14026 to increase the hourly minimum wage for employees on federal contracts beginning Jan. 30, 2022. President Biden signed the order on April 27, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on the federal response to the continuing surge of the COVID-19 Omicron variant across the country, with members of the Biden Administration COVID response...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after new documents surface d regarding the National School Boards Association’s previously rescinded letter labeling parents as domestic terrorists...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Choate Construction to promote worker safety and health during the construction of a mixed-use development in the historic district of Savannah. The Associated General Contractors of Georgia Inc. and the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute - Safety, Health and Environmental Services Group are also supporting this partnership effort.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2022
There were two notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Jan. 8, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2022
There were 477 notices published by the Labor Department in 2021, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - A federal workplace safety investigation in July 2021 found a utility contractor in Montana exposed employees working in and around trenches to potentially deadly hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - A federal workplace safety investigation in July 2021 found a utility contractor in Montana exposed employees working in and around trenches to potentially deadly hazards.
